Posts Tagged ‘tweaks’

10 Ultimate Ways to Make Windows Boot Faster

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

A fresh Windows installation boots up in a breeze but with time, as we go on using the system, installing applications and stuff, the start up time of Windows starts increasing which increases the waiting time before you could actually use the computer after pressing the power button.

Here are 10 ultimate ways to make your Windows system boot faster than ever

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Display the Run Entry in Vista Start Menu

Monday, October 20th, 2008

In windows Vista start menu, the Run entry is not readily available. If you are used to start run window from start menu in windows xp, then here’s how to display the Run entry in Vista Start Menu.

1. Right click on Start Button and select Properties.

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11 Tricks to make Windows Vista more Useful

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

These 11 tricks will help make your Windows Vista system more useful than before and save time doing routine tasks on Vista machine.

This list also covers some of the annoyances of Windows Vista and how to remove them using simple tricks.

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10 Extremely Useful Gmail Tips

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Gmail has now become ubiquitous. Every other person out there is using Gmail as his preferred e-mail service. Since there are hundreds of tips and tricks to customize how Gmail works, and most of them are not much useful to everyone.

So, I thought of compiling a list of 10 Gmail tips, tricks and hacks that are incredibly useful to anyone using Gmail.

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5 Awesome Tweaks to Power Up Google Talk

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Google-TalkGoogle Talk is  one such IM client that has a minimalist interface which focuses on the basic function of IM i.e. chatting. As compared to other IM clients like Yahoo Messenger, its interface is quite simple.

But here are 5 tweaks that’ll let you get maximum out of your Google Talk client and achieve some of the functions, you might not have thought it could perform.

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23 Lesser known but Incredibly useful Windows Shortcuts

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Lesser Known but useful Windows Keyboard ShortcutsKeyboard Shortcuts are a great way to increase productivity as they save a lot of time and also relieve hands from that pain caused by using mouse repetitively.

Here are 23 lesser known Windows Shortcuts categorized into their area of use that are incredibly helpful in increasing productivity as they make common daily tasks a lot easier.

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Simple Hack Inflates Feedburner RSS Count

Monday, August 4th, 2008

In this video, Joop from ThenextWeb demonstrates how easily Feedburner Feed counter can be inflated with just a basic trick. To inflate the subscriber count, what Joop did is create an OPML file containing same RSS url a thousand times and then importing it into an RSS Reader like Netvibes.

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15 steps to a better Windows Experience

Friday, August 1st, 2008

2 weeks back, we started a series of 15 posts about tips and tricks for Windows to make it more usable. Here’s the complete list of 15 different tweaks fro Windows XP that make your Windows experience more satisfying.

1. Add Folders to Send To Context Menu:

Remember that Send To context menu when you right click any folder or file in your Explorer. It lists a few locations by default so that you can directly copy files or folders to specified locations. In case, you use one particular folder to keep a copy of your important files or folders, wouldn’t it be nice to have that folder in Send To context menu.

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Windows Tweaks - Part 15 - Rename Multiple Files or Folders

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This is the final post of our series of 15 posts (one post everyday) about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Rename Multiple Files or Folders in Windows Explorer?

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Windows Tweaks - Part 14 - Clean Up Start Menu

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

This is the fourteenth post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Clean Up Windows Start Menu?

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